Table 3: Intra- and inter-observer statistics for average screw angle and maximum screw angle for patients assessed (O: Observer Number 1; R: Observer Number 2).

Observer and screw

ICC1

Raw Slope2

mean difference3

95% Limits of agreement4

rho5

Pitman's test6 P

Bradley-Blackwood test7 P

(intercept)

(95% CI)

Intra-observer measurement 1 v 2

O average

0.99

1.031 (-0.01)

 0.09 (-0.10-0.28)

-1.32 - 1.49

 0.223

0.095

0.16

R average

0.939

 1.040 (-0.42)

 -0.29 (-0.78-0.20)

-3.88 - 3.30

 0.116

0.39

0.34

O max

0.993

1.025 (0.09)

 0.24 (0.03-0.45)

-1.34 - 1.81

 0.223

0.089

0.02

R max

0.946

 0.986 (-0.54)

 -0.63 (-1.20 - -0.05)

-4.94 - 3.69

-0.044

0.74

0.1

Inter-observer R v O

Average

0.979

0.997 (0.07)

 0.06 (-0.22-0.34)

-2.01 - 2.13

-0.014

0.92

0.92

Maximum

0.98

 1.042 (-0.04)

 0.20 (-0.16-0.57)

-2.52 - 2.93

 0.211

0.11

0.15

1Inter-class correlation co-efficient between observation 1 and observation 2; 2Perfect agreement between the two observations would give slope = 1; intercept = 0; 3Mean difference between the two observations made from each patient; 4The reference range for difference between observations (according to Bland-Altman, 1986); 5The correlation coefficient for the association between the difference and mean as depicted in the Bland-Altman plots; 6Pitman's is a test for zero correlation between the sums and differences of the paired observations; 7Bradley-Blackwood test is a test for the equivalence of both the means and the variance of the differences between the paired observations.